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Cash and care : policy challenges in the welfare state /

Recent social trends and policy developments have called into question the divide between the provision of income support ('cash') and social care services ('care'). This book addresses these themes in the light of key trends: individualisation, new emphasis on the responsibiliti...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Glendinning, Caroline, 1950-, Kemp, Peter, 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Care and gender : have the arguments for recognising care work now been won? / Jane Lewis
  • Research on care : what impact on policy and planning? / Kari Wærness
  • 'Pseudo-democracy and spurious precision' : knowledge dilemmas in the new welfare state / Eithne McLaughlin
  • The costs of caring for a disabled child / Jan Pahl
  • Disability, poverty and living standards : reviewing Australian evidence and policies / Peter Saunders
  • Consumers without money : consumption patterns and citizenship among low-income families in Scandinavian welfare societies / Pernille Hohnen
  • Affordable credit for low-income households / Sharon Collard
  • Carers and employment in a work-focused welfare state / Hilary Arksey and Peter A. Kemp
  • Paying family caregivers : evaluating different models / Caroline Glendinning
  • Developments in Austrian care arrangements : women between free choice and informal care / Margareta Kreimer
  • When informal care becomes a paid job : the case of Personal Assistance Budgets in Flanders / Jef Breda [and others]
  • Better off in work? Work, security and welfare for lone mothers / Jane Millar
  • Reciprocity, lone parents and state subsidy for informal childcare / Christine Skinner and Naomi Finch
  • Helping out at home : children's contributions to sustaining work and care in lone-mother families / Tess Ridge
  • Making connections : supporting new forms of engagement by marginalised groups / Karen Postle and Peter Beresford
  • Independent living : the role of the disability movement in the development of government policy / Jenny Morris
  • Securing the dignity and quality of life of older citizens / Hilary Land.